Holiday toll hits 11 with 2 days to go
A motorcyclist was killed yesterday on the Coromandel Peninsula and a motorist died in Marlborough last night, taking the holiday road toll to 11.
A motorcyclist was killed yesterday on the Coromandel Peninsula and a motorist died in Marlborough last night, taking the holiday road toll to 11.
The death of a man hurt in a Waikato crash has brought the holiday road toll to 10. A 20-year-old died of his injuries about 4pm in Waikato Hospital. A car he was in yesterday hit a van carrying five disabled children on SH1.
The holiday road toll has risen to nine following a crash involving two motorcycles on the Coromandel peninsula this afternoon.
The holiday road toll now stands at eight following a crash in Opotiki in the eastern Bay of Plenty this evening in which a man died after being flung through the windscreen of a car.
A fatal crash in Hastings early today has taken the holiday road toll to seven but provisional figures show the road toll for 2010 is 373, down 12 from 2009.
The holiday road toll has risen to six after a fatal crash on the Napier-Taupo highway this afternoon.
The wife of Ross McSheffrey, who was pinned under his own bus yesterday, has paid tribute to his rescuers.
A contractor who used his digger to lift a bus off its trapped driver, and an off-duty nurse may have saved the man's life yesterday.
As she watched a car and then a truck hurtle towards her, Chelsea Walker's only thought was how she and her family could survive the head-on collision - and the pile-up that put 12 people in hospital.
Drivers appear to be taking more care on the roads over the Christmas period, with police noting a reduction in road crashes this year.
A 13-year-old boy was driving the Toyota Hilux that crashed in Hawkes Bay yesterday killing a 17-year-old woman, say police.
Eight of 12 people injured in a Hawkes Bay crash yesterday remain in hospital, while a 17-year-old killed earlier in the day has been named.
A multi-vehicle pile up in Hawkes Bay has put 10 people in hospital, three with critical injuries, say police. Two tourists, one German and one Italian, are among those injured.
A 20-year-old man remains in a serious condition in Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit after a crash in the Waikato last night.
The official holiday road death toll has risen to three after a 17-year-old was killed in a Hawkes Bay crash.